Pennsylvania Museum Extension Project archive, 1938-1939.

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Pennsylvania Museum Extension Project archive, 1938-1939.

Primarily contains Pennsylvania Museum Extension Project information on exhibitions and displays it sponsored and organized throughout Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Includes twenty-eight b & w photographs, five folders with correspondence and reports about exhibitions and project materials, and actual newspaper from Doylestown, dated 2 June 1938. Correspondents include Florence Kerr, assistant administrator of the WPA and Martha C. Colt, director of Pennsylvania Museum Extension Project.

1 box (0.2 linear ft.)

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United States. Works Progress Administration of Pennsylvania

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The Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC) had barely come into existence (April 1929) when the stock market crashed, marking the onset of the Great Depression. Declaring itself to be without funds in December 1933, the commission, under the direction of its secretary, Walter H. Thomas, and vice chairman, S. P. Wetherill, Jr., applied for a grant from the Pennsylvania Civil Works Administration to support the activities of the commission from mid-December 1933 through mid-Febr...

Museum Extension Project. Pennsylvania

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